passenger-status: command not found

Have You tried accessing the binary with the full path?

Maybe Your $PATH variable doesn't contain the default paths? echo $PATH should give something like:

[root@server ~]# echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin

If it's empty, You may set the PATH variable with this command

export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin"

On Debian possible default full paths are:

/usr/sbin/passenger-status - from package: ruby-passenger

You may install the required package with command apt-get install {package}
Error in other languages:
passenger-status: bevel nie gevind nie
passenger-status: comandă negăsită
passenger-status: comando não encontrado
passenger-status: commande introuvable
passenger-status: command not found
passenger-status: käsku ei ole
passenger-status: không tìm thấy lệnh
passenger-status: komanda nerasta
passenger-status: Kommando nicht gefunden.
passenger-status: kommandot finns inte
passenger-status: komut yok
passenger-status: nie znaleziono polecenia
passenger-status: níor aimsíodh an t-ordú
passenger-status: no se encontró la orden
passenger-status: no s'ha trobat l'ordre
passenger-status: opdracht niet gevonden
passenger-status: parancs nem található
passenger-status: perintah tidak ditemukan
passenger-status: príkaz nenájdený
passenger-status: příkaz nenalezen
passenger-status: команда не найдена
passenger-status: командата не е открита
passenger-status: 命令找不到
passenger-status: コマンドが見つかりません